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Sunday, 2 July 2017

Wild Flower Birthday

Hi all. I am so taken with my new Brushos that here is another card using them. I am also using a NBUS stamp from Chocolate Baroque called Baroque Meadow.

This card was made for the lovely Darnell to wish her a Happy Birthday
today and a speedy recovery from her recent surgery and I hope you are
being spoilt rotten..lol. I know she has received it so here it is:

This card like a lot of mine didn't turn out quite as I intended but I adapted it as I went along. I decided to make a rectangular card for a change and cut a mat out of some white card using my Crealies Rectangle Nesting Dies with Dots (No. 44) and then stamped the wild flowers in the centre using Archival Black ink and heat embossed using WOW Clear Gloss Embossing Powder.

I originally intended to colour the background using the Brushos but keeping the colour to a rectangular shape smaller than the flowers, so using one of the smaller Crealies dies I cut an aperture from some copy paper and placed this over the flowers so some of them were outside the shape. Using four of the colours, i.e. Ultramarine, Turquoise, Leaf Green and Emerald Green I sprinkled them where I wanted them and spritzed with water then blotted with a piece of kitchen towel and lifted the paper. I did stick some repositionable adhesive around the shape to try to keep a clean edge but unfortunately the colour had bled round the edges quite a bit and looked untidy. I then decided to cut a frame from a snippet of white card using the same set of Crealies dies and this is how you see it now.

I finished it by adding a sentiment again using the Archival Black ink and heat embossed it with the WOW Clear Gloss EP.

With hindsight it would have been better to cut the shape from acrylic as spritzing made the copy paper quite wet which I'm sure added to the problem, or use some masking tape making sure to remove some of the tack first, but it worked out well in the end.

Gorgeous card, Pat. LOVE the brushos background ... great job! It's almost impossible to keep them Brushos contained ... at least that's my experience. Creating a frame to pop on top is the easiest way around it. It looks awesome. A framed watercolour painting. xx

You got a great photo of this spectacular card, Pat, because it looks very like how this looks in person! You are a Brusho Master! This looks like a wildflower wonderland we'd all love to visit!! Hugs, Darnell

A really super creation for our July Flowers theme and loving the Brusho background. But be warned they are extremely addictive, I've just invested in some Pixie Powders although yet to play, but they look equally as much fun and with sparkle as well.

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Since I was young I have always been interested in things creative and have dabbled in knitting, crochet, needlecrafts and oil and watercolour painting. About seven or eight years ago I made some cross stitch cards and so began my love of card making. I mainly make cards for family and friends but I would like to take it a step further and enter some of the many challenges there are out there now. I hope you enjoy following my journey and seeing the results of my efforts, and if you use any of my ideas please link back to here.

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